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Thad looks over at me as my fists tighten together. “I’m with Gage.”
That apparently explains it all. “Does he have Kya’s number?”
“No,” Dice answers. “She didn’t have a phone when we were there the other day. I assumed she must have gotten one since Karma said she got a text from her. Why would her own sister do this?”
I glance back over at the dead owner of the pawnshop, and I almost get sick, but not because of the gruesome sight before me.
“It wasn’t Kya,” Thad says in a whisper. “Kya was leaving that cabin. We’re at the pawnshop and the owner is dead.”
Dice sucks in a breath, drawing the same gut-wrenching conclusion I have. Gavin has them. If they’re not dead, there’s no telling what he’s doing to them. And I left Kimber without a single line of fucking defense.
***
KIMBER
My head throbs as I groan and try to open my eyes. My vision is blurry at first, but when it finally comes to me, I see the bars that surround two sides of the cell, and the stone walls that make up the other two sides.
The shackles are biting into my flesh, and I struggle against them, making them rattle. My breath catches in my throat when I look over to see Karma on the ground, shackled at her wrists and feet like me, with her head buried into her knees that she has drawn to her chest.
“I’m so sorry,” she says in a choked whisper.
The last thing I remember is walking into the cabin. Then there’s nothing but a blank.
“What happened?” I ask, wincing when I feel the ache all over.
“I led us into a trap,” she says while looking up with a tear-stained face. “I was so eager to see my sister again that I didn’t think. She told me she wasn’t staying there, and I still went over there without hearing her voice tell me those words. It was a trap, and I’m the reason we’re in here.”
She puts her head back down, and I lean back against the wall.
“S’not your fault, Karma. We both let our guard down. Why the hell does he want us?”
“That’s a good question, isn’t it?” My eyes snap up just as Gavin comes into view with his deceptive beauty. The snake hides behind a mask of an Adonis, making him the ultimate predator.
Like a smug ass, he props against the bars and looks in at us. “You two really are rather dumb. You piss off a powerful warlock, yet you run right into the first trap I set. I honestly expected a little more, considering the protective family you have,” he says, his words pointed at me.
I say nothing, but I turn my chin up with some pride, refusing to let him see the fear I actually hold.
His smile falls, and his eyes burrow into mine. “Where are my weapons?” he asks sternly.
“What?”
He laughs bitterly. “Oh, now, don’t start playing dumb. I’m not a fool. Tell me where my weapons are.”
Defiantly, I hold my silence, and Karma smirks as she looks over at me. She won’t tell him a damn thing either.
“Do you have any idea how long it takes to acquire thousands of anointed weapons?” he asks rhetorically. “Centuries,” he says, answering the question I didn’t care to hear to begin with. “They were cast aside like worthless antiques, forgotten relics of a past that would never come again. And in one swoop, they’re mostly all gone. I only have a few hundred that you’re insipid family didn’t steal. I want them back. All of them. And you’re going to tell me where they are.”
He smirks as he looks me over, his eyes landing on my chest and lingering there for too long. “Or I’m going to take yet another girl my brother loves,” he adds, bringing his flaming eyes back up to meet mine.
My shudder stays hidden, and I force a sweet smile. “Go. To. Hell.”
He fights hard not to react. Then Karma adds, “She’ll send you there. I mean, she sent her own boyfriend there. What do you think she’ll do to you?”
Her snarky remark forces his mask of composure to falter and he flings open the cell door to enter.
“Tell me where my weapons are. I don’t have time to hunt down an anointed, even though I know one has to be out there. Otherwise the weapons wouldn’t be active. I don’t know which bloodlines have been restored, nor do I know if the person has come into their abilities yet. So, you see why this is a little urgent.”
I laugh, even though I don’t feel it. “An
